Trying to decide on the RP

Great Bustard wrote:

knutte wrote:

Just got mine yesterday, here's one image I took to see some dark shadows and bright highlights. I'm pretty impressed with the minimal noise. This is straight off the camera and I've only viewed it on my laptop.

The noise isn't noticeable in the dark areas because, well, they're dark. When you lighten them up, the noise becomes much more visible -- much more so with the RP than with other cameras.

So, if you're not lightening the dark areas of your photos, the RP has easily enough DR for most all people in most all situations. But if you're lightening the shadows any significant amount, the RP will photo will "fall apart" far more quickly than photos from other cameras.

Precisely.

Some people like to shoot where they expose for the highlights (bright areas, sun, etc.) - which typically means under-exposing for the rest (subject primarily) and bringing the shadows back in post.

There are multiple examples of this, but one of good ones that's easy to understand is YouTuber Manny Ortiz in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Q2CwniDIQg&t=42s

Skip to 3:20 (between 3:20 and 3:30) and see how he exposes for the sun, making his model completely dark and then he's able to bring those shadows back in post with essentially no loss in quality. (this video is also good - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yx8MEDm-2U&t=226s)

I think of it this way - the more DR a camera has, the more ability you have in post to "recover" some of your details you may not immediately see. Yes it makes for a bit of lazy photography, but you never know when you'll want/need to recover some details in the shadows in post. It can also work beautifully for landscapes shots where the sun is very bright - you may want to purposefully underexpose and then recover the details to create a better image overall.